Death
His film career was cut short by chronic alcoholism, which led to his death from a heart attack in Beverly Hills, California, in 1956 at the age of 50. Newton married four times and had three children: Sally Newton (b. 1930), Nicholas Newton (b. 1950) and Kim Newton (b. 1953). After some court battles, Newton's elder son was placed in the custody of his aunt and uncle.
Robert Newton was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Years later Nicholas Newton scattered his father's ashes in the sea in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, near Lamorna where he had spent his childhood.
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